Software Engineer, Distributed Systems Amobee
Redwood City, CA

Job Description

About Amobee:

Amobee is a technology company that transforms the way brands and agencies make marketing decisions. The Amobee Marketing Platform enables marketers to plan and activate cross-channel, programmatic media campaigns using real-time market research, proprietary audience data, advanced analytics, and more than 150 integrated partners, including Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat and Twitter. Amobee is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singtel, one of the largest communications technology companies in the world which reaches over 640 million mobile subscribers. The company operates across North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australia. For more information, visit amobee.com or follow @amobee

Position Summary:

We're changing the way the world thinks about online advertising and we are looking for talented engineers to join the Platform team and help us take it to the next level. Amobee's Platform team develops all distributed and big data systems and applications to efficiently run Amobee's online advertisement, data management, and analytics platforms.

Are you passionate about designing and building scaled, distributed services with low latency messaging and high availability/fault tolerance? Do you think processing 200 billion requests in under 10ms every day with 1500 servers is an interesting challenge? Are you ready to join a world-class, highly cooperative engineering team? If your answers are yes, then you are the person we're looking for.

We are looking for Software Engineers to join the technical staff in our Platform Distributed Systems team. The engineers will contribute to our efforts in designing and implementing the critical distributed systems infrastructure that supports our ad delivery system. If you're passionate about application performance, distributed systems, networking, and huge volumes of data and are interested in joining a world class engineering team you might well be the person we're looking for. Qualified individuals will have a solid background in the fundamentals of computer science, and some background in distributed computing, high availability, large-scale data processing, and performance monitoring and tuning.

Because we are a small team, your ability to communicate technical ideas effectively, in oral and written forms, and solve complex problems in a team environment will also be considered.

Responsibilities:

* Build distributed systems - work on improving and adding new functionality to Amobee's distributed systems backbone.
* Design and implement features evolving our online advertising and data management product offerings.
* Scale up and tune our ad serving pipeline. Challenges come in the form of concurrency, data scale, and computational efficiency.
* Keep it running - help troubleshoot production issues.
* Expand product features into new media channels (display, mobile, video, social, etc.)
* Develop instrumentation/profiling tools and systems.

Qualifications:

* Must be hard working, team-oriented, creative, cooperative, and an exceptional problem solver. And nice. We only have nice people.
* Must be able to quickly understand technical and business requirements and be able to translate into technical implementation
* Experience with Java, C++ or C# is a must.
* 0-5+ years of relevant experience
* A degree in Computer Science (preferred) or Electrical Engineering (BS) is a must. MS/ Ph.D. preferred.
* Some experience with distributed systems, advanced applications building, large-scale data processing or application partitioning.
* Solid understanding and working knowledge of modern operating systems, networking, and/or scalability techniques.
* Proven skills in scalability analysis and performance monitoring and measuring techniques are a must for senior positions.
* Experience with Linux based operating systems is a plus.

Keywords: Distributed systems, high scalability, key/value store, replication, consistency, partitioning, messaging, coordination, (ZooKeeper), streaming, Java, Linux.

Location: Redwood City, CA

In addition to our great environment, we offer a competitive base salary, bonus program, stock options, employee development programs and other comprehensive benefits. Please send a cover letter along with your resume when applying for the position of interest located at Amobee.com. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. No phone calls and no recruiting agencies, please.

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